UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<UmbralRaptor>
Obviously egg needs to provide the next link.
<UmbralRaptor>
Iskierka, egg: I have questions about the airflow around the cow's legs. Especially the front ones.
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<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: you're seeing a slice through the middle of the cow, which is why you see the effect of the legs downwind of them (but you directly see the snout shock)
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<egg|work|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a stabby cat
<egg|work|egg>
*another one*?
<egg|work|egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a paramagnetic icosahedron
<whitequark>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a measure
<egg|work|egg>
huh I forgot to /nick egg|afk|egg before leaving
<egg|work|egg>
whitequark: O_o at the name of the type Cow
<whitequark>
copy-on-write
<egg|work|egg>
yeah
<egg|work|egg>
somehow Rust seems to like abbreviating everything that's more than three letters
<whitequark>
and rust's linter wants specifically camel case for type names
<whitequark>
well, rust is pretty terse
<egg|work|egg>
yeah I noticed the keywords too
* egg|work|egg
stabs the blinds at work that constantly want to close even when it's cloudy out
<egg|work|egg>
(but that refuse to close if the sun is shining in my face and monitor while there's a little bit of wind)
<bofh>
!wpn whitequark & egg
* Qboid
gives whitequark & egg a toasted hexahexaflexagon/correction hybrid
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<kmath>
<pervognsen> @McCloudStrife @rygorous @voidptr_t When Mr Void Pointer is saying you need to lay off the pointer arithmetic crazy… https://t.co/IuXcU82SQu
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<egg>
ferram4, lamont, et al.: any idea for an adjective to say that a burn is in an inertially fixed direction (e.g. spin-stabilized), or to say that to the contrary it tracks the Frenet trihedron?
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<ferram4>
egg: Fixed in inertial space?
<egg>
I guess
<egg>
past 1000 downloads of Cayley already Ꙩ_ꙩ
<bofh>
Not bad. Anyway I should probably actually read that paper now that I have time :P
<Qboid>
bofh: egg left a message for you in #kspacademia [27.07.2017 18:23:06]: "http://imgur.com/a/XC6iL"
<bofh>
Ooh, very not bad.
<bofh>
You're doing grav assists thru all outers incl. Pluto?
<bofh>
LOL \DeltaV Expended: NaN m/s
<bofh>
I, erm, don't think so.
<egg>
bofh: uh, that's the Sun-Earth-Moon system
<egg>
it's outer in that it goes outside the Moon's orbit
<bofh>
I was looking at the frame selection.
<egg>
hah
<egg>
bofh: I wonder whether you could moon-assist your way on the way out, making an even cheaper outer transfer
<bofh>
That's a good question, actually. Like the moon's gravity well *is* fairly non-negligible...
<egg>
... or even eject yourself via an inner resonance, and then come back :D
<egg>
bofh: in stock KSP+principia I can fairly easily get a ballistic capture by inner transfer, but I can't seem to do that with RSS (an outer transfer is surprisingly easy to get though)
<egg>
(I can get an inner transfer with RSS, but it doesn't ballistically capture)
<bofh>
(Ahh)
<bofh>
LOL ejecting oneself via resonance is the goofiest approach to deorbiting oneself.
<bofh>
Huh, I wonder how precise one can get a resonance ejection time to be for a given orbit. Since that seems like it *might* be practical in some weird cases?
<bofh>
17:40 * Qboid gives bofh & Fiora a spectrometer
<bofh>
hey thanks that's very useful :p
<Fiora>
i want a mass spectrometer
<Fiora>
preferably handheld
<UmbralRaptor>
mass specs are cool
* egg
wrote Objective-C for the first time today
<bofh>
my condolences
<egg>
(for a while failed to understand why clang-format was choking on my code: it was because I was accidentally writing Swift because looking at the wrong Apple docs :-p)
<bofh>
SnoopJeDi: good. given the rates of CTE amongst footballers, I'm glad he retired.
<SnoopJeDi>
plus he's just so enthusiastic about academia
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* NCommander
sends a message to egg but screws up the syntax and crashes NSWorld
<egg>
s/NCommander/NSCommander/
<Qboid>
egg meant to say: NSCommander: cayley's out, icymi
<egg>
hah
<NCommander>
egg, .... well played .....
<NCommander>
>.>;
<NCommander>
That's probably the best pun I've ever seen of NCommander :P
<egg>
NCommander: Cayley *is* out though :-p
<NCommander>
egg, I saw. I haven't been playing KSP for two weeks so I'm just getting my mods up to date
<egg>
also Cayley comes with a reminder to update once the new moon comes, so I won't need to nag anyone again :-p
<NCommander>
egg, so principia releases every new moon?
<egg>
if you happen to be southeast of Nashville, Tennessee and playing KSP at the time, the reminder will appear in your UI and then the sun will go dark :D
<egg>
NCommander: yup
<NCommander>
egg, I'll be SE of Nashvile in a few weeks
* NCommander
is moving to Dallas and will pass through there
<NCommander>
egg, there's a star wars joke in here somewhere
<egg>
well if you're there at the time of the eclipse and you're playing KSP, you'll see the reminder and the eclipse at the same time :D
<egg>
NCommander: we release on the new moon, and the releases are named after dead mathematicians
<egg>
the releases do not have numbers
<NCommander>
egg, sooner or later, you're going to run out of dead mathematicians
<egg>
so the next release is Чебышёв
<NCommander>
egg, guess we have awhile before you run out of Russian ones
<egg>
then Cesàro, Chasles, 陈景润, Chevalley, and that brings us to the end of 2017
<egg>
2018 will start with Christoffel, though we're not sure of the full list for 2018 yet
<NCommander>
I'm still waiting for "World Dominance" :)
<egg>
bofh: that Dante comment reminds me of the "honi soit qui mal y pense" in the Apollo guidance code
<bofh>
"With the limited data available, the team formulated a plan to attempt a recovery and stabilize the spacecraft pointing. The attempt was not successful. The limited data available during the recovery attempt revealed that STEREO-B came close to achieving a stable orientation, but one set of thrusters on-board may have performed abnormally, possibly due to frozen propellant and ultimately spun the
<bofh>
spacecraft back up into an uncontrolled state."
<NCommander>
bofh, so far, the only major spaceshipr ecovery I know was the japanese probe to Venus that blew an engine
<NCommander>
and had to go around the sun twice to get a lower velocity intercept
<bofh>
oh, so STEREO-B was uh
<bofh>
so the ring laser gyro on it failed and started feeding the IMU bullshit
<Iskierka>
that's probably not recoverable
<Iskierka>
the japanese probe kept contact, though - was still under control but lacked the power to enter appropriate orbit
<NCommander>
The international expensive hardware lob is the only sport I really enjoy